8 Nov
1998
8 Nov
'98
12:35 a.m.
The need for static IP comes from them wanting to run their own web-server.
Not necessarily. I asked an ISP for a static IP for security reasons. ("Trusted hosts" and stuff like that there)
Yah, point well taken. Besides, AFAIK, @Home AUP expressly forbids users from offering web and ftp services of any sort off their boxen. Of course, that's not to say that there are not pseudo-31337 w4r3z-kiddi3z out there who do so anyways...8-)